Sights Theodosia - Riverside, Ukraine

Symbols village Shore - rock Iphigenia - one of the witnesses Upper Jurassic volcanism in the Crimea. Name the rock associated with ancient Greek myth of Iphigenia, the daughter of the Hellenic king Agamemnon, members of the Trojan War. From the sea cliff climbing almost 120 meters above sea level, forms a cape.

According to legend, the legendary temple, which was a priestess Iphigenia, was somewhere in the south Tauris, perhaps around Castropol. Particularly impressed by the rock produced by the sea - rising almost 120 meters above the sea, it forms a cape. Collapsed it is thicker alternating tuffs spilitic and keratospilitovyh porphyries, with inclusions of fragments of igneous rocks. Rock Iphigenia declared a natural monument.

From rocky headland Iphigenia related episode of the heroic defense of Sevastopol 1941-1942. In December 1941, landed here and acted reconnaissance group of the Black Sea Fleet under the command of midshipman FF Volonchuka. In memory of the patriots of this raid on the new road Yalta - Sevastopol at the stop "Riverside" in May 1978 a memorial plaque.

Coastal west wall of gray mountains, threatening the coast, dramatically reduced. Here at an altitude of 578 m visible pass, called the Devil's staircase. He noted the beginning of a stone pillar with a sign on the 35-kilometer of the old highway Yalta - Sevastopol. Distance outcropping of limestone indeed resemble huge stairs, rising steeply to the pass. It was used at all times of the Crimean history to migrate from the South Coast in the foothills of the Crimea and back. "Staircase" has 40 sharp turns, enclosed in rocky ravine. Length of about one kilometer.